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TV audiences around the globe are bingeing on the screen adaptation of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood's book The Handmaid's Tale. But way back in the year 2000 (195 years before the creation of the Republic of Gilead) Atwood was already collaborating on an opera version of her futuristic novel. ...

Evelyn Araluen has won Nakata Brophy Prize for Indigenous writers under 30. The prize is offered by Trinity College, the long-established residential college at the University of Melbourne and is named for two former Indigenous students. Last year Evelyn was shortlisted, so she decided to try ...

ABC TV's is about to kick off a three-part series looking at modern prophets. Part one features novelist Tim Winton. He's a smart and thoughtful bloke, but don't call him a "public intellectual". We take a sneak peek at tomorrow's program with Geraldine Doogue. ...

Nobel laureate Patrick White's work is not short of critical appraisal. But, according to musicologist Vincent Plush, the role of music in his work has not been explored nearly enough. Plush joins us to discuss the ways that White came to music, how the opera Voss eventually got written and the ...